-21- Blocking the door
Zhao Jinghuan nervously jumped back into bed when her phone rang. Fortunately, Lu Kai was sound asleep, unaware that Zhao Jinghuan had just leaned in to scrutinize him like a nympho. Zhao Jinghuan opened her phone to find a message from Ji Anya. "Why didn't I see you tonight? Didn't you get any orders from us?" Zhao Jinghuan set her phone to vibrate and hastily replied that she wasn't out running orders tonight. Shortly after sending the message, Ji Anya called. Zhao Jinghuan quickly hung up, saying she couldn't answer the phone right now. Ji Anya, alarmed, immediately demanded to know what Zhao Jinghuan was doing. Zhao Jinghuan glanced at Lu Kai, who lay on the floor. She bit her lip, grabbed her phone, took a sneaky photo of Lu Kai, and sent it to Ji Anya. As soon as she sent the photo, she regretted it and pressed "Retract" within two seconds. Ji Anya, having clearly seen the photo, sent three exclamation marks, then asked Zhao Jinghuan why she had withdrawn it. Zhao Jinghuan said, "Nothing, I just suddenly felt it wasn't right to secretly take photos of someone." "So you really slept with him!?" Zhao Jinghuan blushed and quickly explained on WeChat, "Don't be ridiculous! He just came to help me move." She sent a long message explaining how Lu Kai had asked her to move in after learning about her part-time delivery job. Ji Anya gave her a disappointed look, then said, "By the way, don't forget to send me a red envelope." "Why a red envelope?" Ji Anya sent her a photo—the very photo Zhao Jinghuan had just withdrawn. Ji Anya said, "Withdraw? Humph! You're dealing with a little angel with divine hands! There's nothing I can't save." Immediately, the same photo kept coming back, making Zhao Jinghuan laugh. Soon, Ji Anya was flooding her screen with photos of Lu Kai, reaching twenty or thirty. Zhao Jinghuan quickly sent a red envelope worth 6.6 yuan. Ji Anya accepted the red envelope immediately: "Six dollars and sixty cents! You're stingy, but I still love you." Two seconds later, Ji Anya suddenly sent Lu Kai's photo again. Zhao Jinghuan was about to ask why she hadn't kept her promise, but Ji Anya said, "One last time. Take a good look at him. The night is long, don't miss this opportunity. I'm going to bed." Zhao Jinghuan stared at Lu Kai's photo for a while, and dangerous thoughts began to sprout in her mind. She shook her head frantically to get rid of them. After suppressing the evil thoughts, she decided to rest for a while. She leaned back on the sofa bed and drifted off to a dream. In her dream, she saw stairs, roads, doors knocking, and...
As soon as the phone rang, Zhao Jinghuan jumped back into bed nervously. Fortunately, Lu Kai was sleeping soundly and didn't notice that Zhao Jinghuan had just come close to look at him carefully like a nympho.
Zhao Jinghuan turned on her cell phone and saw a message from Ji Anya.
"Why didn't I see you tonight? Didn't you get any orders from us?"
Zhao Jinghuan set his phone to vibrate mode and replied hastily that he was not out to run an order tonight. Not long after the message was sent, Ji Anya called him. Zhao Jinghuan quickly hung up and said that it was not convenient for him to answer the phone at the moment.
Ji Anya was very alert and immediately asked what Zhao Jinghuan was doing.
Zhao Jinghuan glanced at Lu Kai lying on the floor. She bit her lip, picked up her cell phone, took a secret photo of Lu Kai, and sent it to Ji Anya.
As soon as she sent the photo, she regretted it and pressed "Retract" in less than two seconds.
Ji Anya obviously saw the photo. She first sent three exclamation marks and then asked Zhao Jinghuan why he wanted to withdraw it.
Zhao Jinghuan said: "Nothing, I just suddenly felt that secretly taking photos of others was not a good idea."
"So you really slept with him!?"
Zhao Jinghuan blushed and quickly explained on WeChat, "Don't talk nonsense, he just came to help me move." She sent a long message explaining the whole process of how Lu Kai found out about her part-time job as a food delivery driver and asked her to move in. Ji Anya sent her a disappointed expression and then said, "By the way, don't forget to send me a red envelope."
“Why give out red envelopes?”
Ji Anya sent a photo, which was the candid photo that Zhao Jinghuan had just withdrawn.
Ji Anya said, "Withdraw? Humph, you're facing the little angel of the Holy Hand! There's no map I can't save."
Then, the same photos were sent over and over again. Zhao Jinghuan was so angry that she laughed. After a while, Ji Anya flooded the screen with Lu Kai's photos. There were about twenty or thirty of them. Zhao Jinghuan quickly sent a red envelope of 6.6.
Ji Anya accepted the red envelope in seconds: "Six dollars and sixty cents, you are stingy, but I still love you."
Two seconds later, Ji Anya suddenly sent Lu Kai's photo again. Zhao Jinghuan was about to ask her why she broke her promise, but Ji Anya said:
"One last time. Take a good look at him. The night is long. Don't miss the chance. I'm going to bed."
Zhao Jinghuan stared at Lu Kai's photo for a while, and dangerous thoughts gradually sprouted in her mind. She quickly shook her head hard to get rid of them.
After suppressing her evil thoughts, she decided to take a break. She leaned back on the sofa bed and began to dream in a daze. In her dream, there were stairs, roads, doors that were knocked open, and she pinched Lu Kai's chubby nose again and again.
Zhao Jinghuan didn't sleep very deeply. She was aware that dreaming was a dangerous thing, but she also thought that she was only sleeping for five minutes.
Suddenly, there was a sound of a security door outside. Lu Kai, who was lying on the floor, jumped up suddenly and subconsciously closed the office door.
Tomato's voice came from outside the house: "Huh? Why is this table outside?"
Zhao Jinghuan felt like she had slept for about two or three minutes, maybe five at most. She drowsily opened her eyes and glanced at her phone:
The time is half past ten in the morning.
Lu Kai, who was holding the door with his body against it, looked terrified: "Tomato, Tomato is coming..."
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Zhao Jinghuan came to his senses and understood what Lu Kai was worried about.
——Early morning, room, bed, a man and a woman waking up from sleep.
The configuration of the house could easily lead to misunderstandings. There was more to what happened last night than just moving.
Tomato kicked the desk that Lu Kai had moved out, then put down his backpack and walked towards Lu Kai's office. When he reached the door, he pushed it and found it was locked. He exclaimed, pushed and knocked on the door again, and shouted:
"Lu Kai?"
The two people in the room naturally didn't dare to breathe, and Lu Kai's face even turned pale. Tomato didn't open the door, muttering, "What's going on? Am I the first one here today?" before returning to his workstation.
The creaking sound of him sitting back in the human chair reached the inner room, and Zhao Jinghuan finally breathed a sigh of relief. However, the problem wasn't solved. Tomato, perhaps still sensing something was amiss, pushed the door open again a short while later, even lying on the floor, peering through the crack.
Lu Kai in the house was obviously panicked. After Tomato left, he even walked to the window to look downstairs. After looking, he pulled the curtains and the bed sheets, looking like he had watched too many cartoons and wanted to tie the curtains and bed sheets into a rope to send himself downstairs.
He was fiddling with the curtains by the window when the cell phone in his trouser pocket suddenly rang. Lu Kai was so frightened that his whole body trembled. As soon as the phone rang, Tomato ran to the door of the inner room, banging on it and shouting, "I knew you were in there! Lu Kai, what are you doing!"
Zhao Jinghuan blushed. She thought that she had nothing to fear as long as she was upright, so she stood up and was about to open the door. However, Lu Kai kept gesturing at her, telling her not to move.
Tomato listened to the phone ringing for a while, but Lu Kai didn't come out. He started talking to himself again: "What's going on? Where is he? Did I leave my phone in the house?"
Not long after, Wanfeng and Sister Zou also arrived at the company. When Wanfeng arrived, Fanqie ran over to complain, saying that Lu Kai was hiding in the house and didn't come out, and he didn't know what he was plotting. When Sister Zou came, he went up and repeated his complaint.
Wanfeng tilted his head and said that it was not necessary. When it was Sister Zou's turn, she directly scolded Tomato for being crazy: "Who is in the mood to play hide-and-seek with you?"
Tomato was so anxious that he danced with joy, pointing at the desk that was pushed out, and then pulling Wanfeng to look at the locked door in the inner room. In the end, Wanfeng became a little worried, wondering if Lu Kai had fainted in the inner room.
"Let's call the police."
Sister Zou rolled her eyes at them. "We just called the police yesterday, and you're calling again today. Are you two planning to get a monthly pass? Isn't the door locked? Did Lu Kai find time to lock it before he passed out?"
Tomato shook his head and said that there must be something fishy going on. Then he muttered, "Why didn't Jinghuan come today?" Sister Zou became concerned. She walked to the door of the inner room and pushed it. After confirming that the door was indeed locked, she called Zhao Jinghuan.
Zhao Jinghuan had set her phone to vibrate last night, but when it vibrated, the sound it made on the table wasn't much quieter than a ringtone. Lu Kai reacted the fastest, rushing over to grab Zhao Jinghuan's phone as soon as it vibrated.
In order to facilitate contacting customers while delivering food, Zhao Jinghuan did not set a lock screen on her phone. When Lu Kai touched it, the screen that lit up was stuck on the WeChat chat interface, with rows and rows of the same photos.
——Zhao Jinghuan secretly took photos of Lu Kai last night.
He turned his phone over with a confused look on his face and pointed the screen at Zhao Jinghuan. When Zhao Jinghuan saw the chat history between her and Ji Anya, her face turned red.
Tomato, who was outside, also heard the vibration and asked Sister Zou, who was holding the phone, "Who did you call just now?"
Sister Zou paused for a moment, then lied calmly, "I called Lu Kai. Didn't you say his phone was in the house? Let me try."
Tomato said, "Look, the sound has turned into a vibration. It was a ringing sound just now. Lu Kai is inside!"
Sister Zou said, "It will vibrate before it rings." Fanqie didn't believe it, so he took out his phone and called Lu Kai. Although he didn't hear the vibration, Lu Kai's phone was still ringing, which made him a little undecided.
At this time, Sister Zou suddenly said, "Oh, I remember now. Lu Kai said he was going to the factory this morning to battle with Mr. Zhou. I guess Jing Huan went with him."
Tomato said, "But his cell phone is still in the house?"
Sister Zou nodded. "Well, it looks like Zhao Jinghuan has to pay for the taxi fare. Lu Kai is indeed the man. Maybe he threw it in the office on purpose. I'll have to urge Jinghuan to ask him for the money later. I can't let him get away with it."
Zou Jie got up and packed her things. Tomato asked her what she was doing and she said she was having lunch. She turned around and called Wanfeng, asking her to go downstairs with her, saying that there was a lamb rib hot pot restaurant downstairs and she wanted to try it.
"I can't finish this huge pot of meat by myself. Let's go, Wanfeng. I'll treat you."
Tomato raised an eyebrow and asked, "Why didn't you invite me?" Sister Zou snorted, "I'm bothering you." She walked out with the evening breeze. When Tomato heard there was something delicious, she had no idea that Sister Zou was trying to lure the tiger away from the mountain. Without caring whether Lu Kai was in the house, she shamelessly chased after him.
After the three of them left, only Lu Kai and Zhao Jinghuan were left in the studio.
Zhao Jinghuan said: "I...that photo is..."
Lu Kai's face flushed to his ears. "No... nothing." The two stood there for a while, neither of them knowing what to say. In the end, they decided to pretend nothing had happened.
"Let's, let's go out first, they should be back soon."
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After Zou and the others went downstairs for lunch, they returned to the studio. Zhao Jinghuan had already returned to her workstation. Seeing Zhao Jinghuan, Tomato asked her where Lu Kai was, then went to push the inner office door, only to find it still locked.
Zhao Jinghuan said, "He...he went to eat." She glanced at Sister Zou guiltily and continued with her previous lie, "He went to the factory this morning and came back to eat with Lu Kai. I'm not hungry..."
As soon as she finished speaking, she heard the sound of "thump thump, thump thump" coming up the stairs in the corridor.
Lu Kai pushed the door open and came in. Without giving anyone a chance to ask questions, he raised his voice like he had been injected with chicken blood: "I know what to do!"
This is to change the subject.
He then told the others what he had said to Zhao Jinghuan the previous day. Tomato heard that Lu Kai was going to find another factory to redo the design, so he asked him, "What happened when you went to the factory this morning?"
"That would raise the cost significantly. Are you really prepared to risk your entire fortune?"
Lu Kai frowned and said nothing.
Tomato continued, "Okay, even if you're addicted to gambling and don't care about anything anymore, do you think you can design it that quickly? A 9+1 model with 10 dolls, made from scratch, and released in August. How do you expect Dorasi to do that?"
"If 9+1 doesn't work, let's do 6+1." Lu Kai called Dorasi and asked if she had any ready-made designs. Even if it was just a rough draft in her head, it would be fine.
Dorasi on the phone said lazily that his head was as empty as the sky of Doraemon in May.
Tomato spread his hands and said to Lu Kai, "Look." Lu Kai hung up the phone, but still didn't give up: "I can't rely on Mr. Zhou. This is the only way now."
Tomato said: "If you can't do it, you can't do it. No matter what you do, you can't go against the objective laws."
At this moment, Wanfeng suddenly raised his hand timidly, but when he saw that Fanqie and Lu Kai seemed not to notice him, he put it down timidly.
Seeing Wanfeng's actions, Zhao Jinghuan gestured to Fanqie and Lu Kai, who were about to quarrel again, to stop, and then asked Wanfeng if he had anything to say.
Wanfeng's voice was weak: "When I was bored, I made some designs for freckles... They were all casually drawn, thinking of them as some practice... But I, I am very serious! They are just some rough drafts, though. I don't have Dorasi's talent, but they can be used as a reference, in case Dorasi thinks..."
Lu Kai interrupted him abruptly: "Is that enough for 9?"
"That's enough..." Wanfeng said, "It's still more than 9 models."
Lu Kai pressed on: "How much more is more?"
"I haven't counted..." Wanfeng opened the folder on the computer and pressed ctrl+a on the keyboard to select all.
The computer froze.
After three or four seconds, Wan Feng blushed and said, "Fifty-six items."
Lu Kai was shocked: "Wow. You are going to create an entire Chinese nation." He and Fanqie stood up almost at the same time and moved towards Wanfeng's computer.
Sister Zou in the corner of the room did not move. She glanced at Zhao Jinghuan vaguely across most of the room.
Author's Note
Yaunai
author
05-14
The list will be out tomorrow! Everyone, remember to vote! Even though I've dropped to 11th place, I somehow feel like I still have a chance!
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